Rita Dhamoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Dhamoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhamoon |
| SIGNATURE | DHAMOON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of the Fraser Valley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in recent contemporary western political theory. This book offers a nuanced critique of these debates by questioning liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture and, just as important, its unintended consequences. Identity/Difference Politics switches the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of …
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in recent contemporary western political theory. This book offers a nuanced critique of these debates by questioning liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture and, just as important, its unintended consequences. Identity/Difference Politics switches the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Minorities (2 works)